‘American Idol’ Goes Live

‘American Idol’ went live tonight and started the three-night effort to whittle the remaining twenty contestants down to just ten. The girls were up first, singing their hearts out to stay.

Born to perform and work a crowd, the zany Zoanette Johnson hit it hard with Tina Turner’s ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It’ adding her own Zoanette zing, but it wasn’t her best showing and she had trouble hitting the mark. “That wasn’t it,” said Nicki. Keith questioned her song choice, but said if we were giving an award for the most “joyous, unbridled, free-spirited girl, you’d be it.” Randy said, “That was a mess, baby…your pitch was all over the place.” Mariah conceded it wasn’t her favorite of Zoanette’s performances.

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